Creation Merit

At this moment, Pangu had comprehended all 129,600 Laws of Strength, but he had also exhausted all his energy.

Even the Pangu Axe had developed cracks, and the Jade Plate of Creation was on the verge of shattering.

In the endless Chaos, the Eye of the Great Dao emerged and stared at Pangu.

"I have one axe that can split heaven and earth!" Pangu roared as he charged upward, swinging his axe.

The entire Chaos World seemed to have been split apart. Li Xinghe stared in shock, as though he had glimpsed the world beyond Chaos.

"Dig, dig, dig in the world beyond Chaos. Whatever treasures I dig up, I'll bring them all home."

Li Xinghe frantically urged the Chaos Shovel and dug a few times at that mysterious void. In the end, he unearthed two streams of mysterious energy.

The next moment, the gap in Chaos closed. Divine Thunder of the Great Dao descended from above, nearly shattering the Pangu Axe, while Pangu himself nearly died beneath it.

"Sure enough, the Three Thousand Demon Gods exhausted Big Brother's strength. The Great Dao's punishment has come," Li Xinghe sighed.

Pangu seemed to sense something. Breaking through Chaos was no longer possible, so he could only follow his second brother's method and open a new world.

With that thought, he stopped resisting the Great Dao and directly opened up a new world within Chaos.

Endless Earth Fire Wind Water surged, Chaos qi dispersed, and the outline of a world appeared.

The clear qi rose to become the heavens, while the turbid qi sank to become the earth. Thus, the Primordial Wilderness was born.

"Too barren!" With a wave of his hand, Pangu cast all the flesh and blood of the Demon Gods that had fallen in Chaos into it.

"Still not enough!" Unable to withstand the pressure of creating heaven and earth, the Thirty-Six-Grade Chaos Green Lotus beneath his feet broke apart and fell into the Primordial World.

Yet heaven and earth had nothing to support them and seemed about to merge together. Pangu swung his axe again, and at last, the Pangu Axe and Jade Plate of Creation could no longer endure the pressure of creation. They shattered into fragments and vanished between heaven and earth.

"Still not enough!" Pangu took a step forward, planted his feet on the earth, and held up the heavens with both hands. His Demon God body grew wildly, forcing heaven and earth apart.

He finally exhausted the last trace of his strength and completely fell.

Afterward, his spine became Buzhou Mountain, supporting heaven and earth;

His left eye became the sun, and his right eye became the moon;

His blood became rivers, nourishing the earth;

His muscles became soil, and his hair became grasses and trees.

Deep within Buzhou Mountain, Pangu's Heart became Pangu Temple, where the final twelve drops of Essence Blood were nurtured.

His primordial spirit became three streams of clear qi and vanished between heaven and earth.

At this moment in the Chaos World, Li Xinghe looked at the Primordial World before him with deep emotion. The Three Thousand Demon Gods had simply become fertilizer for the Primordial Wilderness.

However, he knew that many top-level Demon Gods had not truly fallen. What had been slain were merely their physical bodies, while portions of their true spirits had already fled into the Primordial World.

Soon, these Demon Gods would reincarnate in the Primordial World and use their former flesh and blood to take form.

However, some might have too little true spirit remaining and would even forget their identities from their previous lives.

That was fine too. It would save him the trouble of them reviving one by one to settle scores with him.

The only thing worth celebrating was that That Old Man Chaos had completely scattered in body and soul. Without the protection of the Chaos Pearl, he had been nothing more than a nobody beneath the Pangu Axe.

As for Hongjun and Luohu, they possessed immense Fortune, so they probably had not fallen so easily either.

No matter what, he should first find himself a cultivation ground. After some consideration, he ultimately chose the only temple Pangu had left in the world as his cultivation ground.

In the entire Primordial World, only this place had been personally left behind by Pangu. Moreover, the Twelve Ancestral Witches would take form here in the future.

This was also the key to resurrecting Pangu in the future. During the later Witch-Demon Calamity, the Twelve Ancestral Witches had originally summoned Pangu's body. They had held a certain victory, but Hongjun interfered in the end, causing both the Witch and Demon races to decline completely.

Hongjun had continuously influenced everything in the Primordial World through such methods, slowly erasing Pangu's traces.

At this moment, heaven and earth had just stabilized. The Great Dao appeared and finally bestowed Creation Merit.

As Pangu's primordial spirit, the Three Pure Ones alone received thirty percent of the Creation Merit, while the Witch Race, formed from Pangu's Essence Blood, received ten percent.

Of the remaining sixty percent, ten percent merged with the Profound Yellow qi formed during creation and condensed into the acquired Merit Supreme Treasure, the Heaven and Earth Exquisite Profound Yellow Pagoda.

Another ten percent became the acquired Merit Supreme Treasure, the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler. It could kill without incurring Cause and Effect and was a supreme killing treasure second only to the Pangu Banner.

Another twenty percent belonged to the lands of the Primordial Wilderness, benefiting all things between heaven and earth.

The final twenty percent fell upon Li Xinghe. Everything had gone as he expected: he had persuaded Pangu to create heaven and earth, so he deserved a share of the Creation Merit.

"The Three Pure Ones only received thirty percent, while I alone have twenty percent. The advantage is mine," Li Xinghe thought happily.

Moreover, he had chosen Pangu Temple as his cultivation ground for a reason: the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler would be born within Pangu Temple.

As for the other treasure, the Heaven and Earth Exquisite Profound Yellow Pagoda, it was likely not yet born. Following the original course of events, it should eventually fall into Taiqing Laozi's hands.

With the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler added in, it was equivalent to him alone possessing thirty percent of the Creation Merit. The entire Primordial Wilderness had only received twenty percent.

Most importantly, the Hongmeng Measuring Ruler could kill without incurring Cause and Effect. That was the ability he valued most.

He remembered how, when he had read Primordial Wilderness novels before, what annoyed him most was all that nonsense about Cause and Effect and Karmic Force. Killing someone always came with endless fuss, as though they feared karmic force would entangle them.

More importantly, an acquired Merit Supreme Treasure could be used directly without refinement.

Otherwise, with the Chaos Shovel, Chaos Pearl, and Ancestor Qiankun's Qiankun Cauldron, who knew how long he would need to refine them before he could display even some of their power.

Fortunately, he had now obtained twenty percent of the Creation Merit, enough to sustain him for a long time.

By his estimate, once he had used up all this Merit, he should have refined several treasures almost completely, and his strength would increase greatly.

According to the Primordial Wilderness setting, beginning with immortals, the realms were Earth Immortal, Heavenly Immortal, True Immortal, Golden Immortal, Taiyi Golden Immortal, and Grand Unity Golden Immortal.

After that came Quasi-Saint, and finally Saint.

The cultivation levels in Chaos were largely the same at the lower stages. The difference was that after Grand Unity Golden Immortal came Hunyuan Golden Immortal, equivalent to Quasi-Saint, followed by Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal, equivalent to Saint.

For example, the Demon Gods among the Three Thousand Demon Gods had all been at the Hunyuan Grand Unity Golden Immortal level. A small number of even more powerful top-level beings were Hunyuan Taiji Grand Unity Golden Immortals, equivalent to the Heavenly Dao Realm, while Pangu had been an even more powerful Hunyuan Wuji Grand Unity Golden Immortal.

However, Li Xinghe was in no hurry to absorb that Creation Merit. The Primordial Wilderness had only just stabilized, and there were no living beings yet. Treasures were everywhere.

Even if living beings were born, they would merely be weaklings. As a dignified Grand Unity Golden Immortal wielding several Chaos Supreme Treasures, he could be said to be invincible under heaven.

Before that, he wanted to wander across the lands of the Primordial Wilderness. Perhaps he might encounter some opportunities.

After all, in his memories, the Primordial World still had quite a few heaven-defying treasures.

Especially that great sucker, the Chaos Green Lotus. Aside from the three Innate Supreme Treasures formed from the Pangu Axe, nearly all the notable treasures in the Primordial World had been formed from the Chaos Green Lotus.

For example, the God Slaying Spear,

the Twelve-Grade Golden Lotus of Merit,

the Twelve-Grade Red Lotus of Karma Fire,

the Twelve-Grade White Lotus of Purity,

the Twelve-Grade Black Lotus of World Destruction,

and even the weapons of the Three Pure Ones had all been formed from the lotus flowers, lotus roots, and lotus leaves of the Chaos Green Lotus.

Some treasures might not yet be ready to appear, but who was Li Xinghe? He bore the two great laws of Time and Fate, and he also possessed the Fortune brought by Chaos Supreme Treasures. If he casually dug around, he would definitely uncover treasures.

With that thought, he took a step and left Buzhou Mountain. Then, using the power of Time and Fate to deduce the way forward, he fixed his gaze on a direction and flew away.